Opinion Stories from December 15, 2011 (Change date)
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Our American family is stressed outDec 15, 2011 5:01 am - Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful, spend time with family and friends, and eat from the bounty of God’s good earth. But maybe it should be the day we celebrate the b...
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Distracted driving hardly an ‘epidemic’Dec 15, 2011 5:01 am - Epidemic? Seriously, an epidemic? As in “The epidemic of distracted driving” as stated in your “Tunnel Vision” article of Dec. 4. Epidemic, according to the Random House...
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The wrong way to fight a slurDec 15, 2011 5:01 am - Here’s a perfect example of why do-gooders who crusade for the personal dignity of illegal immigrants have all but lost the war of rhetoric. In November, the American H...
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Money too greatly influences campaignsDec 15, 2011 5:01 am - Lazlo Stephen in his recent letter claimed the drawdown of troops in Iraq is a mistake, and he attributes self-serving motives to President Obama for doing so. The elect...
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Seniors elected those who misspent fundsDec 15, 2011 5:01 am - Liz Mueller claims in her Fence Post letter (Nov. 25) that seniors aren’t to blame for the Social Security and Medicare mess. It is the politicians who spent the money t...
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Don’t blame Clinton for financial crisisDec 15, 2011 5:01 am - I am responding to Myron Dudek’s letter of Dec. 8, where Dudek implied that it was President Clinton and the Democratic Congress mostly to blame for the current financia...
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Tracking the elusive ‘stealth candidate’Dec 15, 2011 4:01 am - The “stealth candidate.” It may not be a term you’re intimately familiar with unless you cover elections for a living, and it may seem as counterintuitive to you as it d...
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Time to limit legislative sessionDec 15, 2011 4:01 am - On Tuesday, the Illinois legislature finally adjourned for 2011, with the House and Senate having put in a combined three extra days since their scheduled adjournment on...
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‘True progressive’ is right for CongressDec 15, 2011 4:01 am - I’m writing to talk about a great young candidate named Ilya Sheyman. I’ve had the pleasure to canvass for his campaign and it was a great experience. Sheyman is a Jewis...
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Media covering for Corzine’s debacleDec 15, 2011 4:01 am - Can you imagine what the news media would do if an ex-Republican governor and senator had joined a Wall Street investment bank as CEO and promptly caused the eighth-larg...
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